Summary

Donald Trump is assembling the wealthiest U.S. administration in history, with a cabinet of billionaires and multimillionaires worth a combined $340 billion.

High-profile appointees include Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy for a new government efficiency role, alongside billionaires Linda McMahon, Doug Burgum, and Scott Bessent in key cabinet positions.

Critics argue this contrasts sharply with Trump’s working-class rhetoric, with analysts warning of policies favoring the wealthy at the expense of public services like education and social security.

Backlash over inequality and budget cuts is anticipated.

  • @snekerpimp
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    1266 days ago

    So we’re an oligarchy now, right? I mean, pretty much feels like a few, elite rich ruling over the poor… isn’t that what an oligarchy is?

  • @xenomor
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    556 days ago

    Get them all assembled into one place. Just sayin’.

    • @Arbiter
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      276 days ago

      Maybe they should take a trip to NYC.

      • @[email protected]
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        146 days ago

        Supposedly the dude took a bus from Atlanta.

        DC is just as travel-friendly, probably cheaper

        Also less chance of hitting an innocent rat

        • Tiefling IRL
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          56 days ago

          Our rats are not fuckin innocent. They’re all assholes. They don’t care about you in the slightest.

    • @[email protected]
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      6 days ago

      News reporters, constantly shocked at everything Trump does. But not enough to call him out on anything.

      • @aesthelete
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        Even this quote employs weaselesque wording that defers to anonymous “critics” to make an accusation while maintaining a filamentous veneer of objectivity.

      • paraphrand
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        36 days ago

        They are shocked? Or just reporting on it?

        Why are these comments always filled with “DUH WE KNOW”?

        • @pageflight
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          56 days ago

          I do think there’s use in reputable sources enshrining obvious facts about bad things going on. Nice to be able to point to them and say “see, it definitely is bad!” when people want to pretend it’s fine. (Or, “see, Exxon clearly knew decades ago,” for the good that does us.)

    • @800XL
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      15 days ago

      Come Inauguration Day, hunting season is going to have the defense of the American Armed Forces and the the tech industry surveillence state to kill anyone Trump wants. Better get started now (disassembling surveillence. Mods, we would never condone hunting the rich in order to preserve the union and democracy.)

    • @Evotech
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      116 days ago

      I’m sure trump’s balls are getting drained from all this dick sucking

    • @TwitchingCheese
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      75 days ago

      Well, yeah. If you drain all the clean water out of the swamp you’re just left with the decaying muck of a dying ecosystem. Almost like that metaphor never actually made sense.

  • @[email protected]
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    235 days ago

    I legitimately had someone I know (but no longer consider a friend) tell me that he believes Trump is a solid businessman and these choices may seem out of the ordinary but it is because nobody with his know-how has ever had an opportunity like this.

    Let’s never mind the first term.

    Dude literally thinks these are all wise choices that he doesn’t understand because he’s too dumb. He’s got the second part right.

    • @Dasus
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      Ignorance is a hell of a drug.

    • @PugJesus
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      106 days ago

      What’s the blast radius of a comet from God, do you think?

      • chingadera
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        36 days ago

        We talking direct hit or affected radius? Gods high score on both is pretty impressive

        • peopleproblems
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          26 days ago

          Yeah even a glancing blow or small chunk has nuclear weapon sized power at a minimum

  • Phoenixz
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    165 days ago

    Billionaires running a government… That can only have one direction; off a cliff. Trump’s legacy will be the destruction of the American state and all trump voters will hate him within the year,

    • @recapitated
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      125 days ago

      Trump voters hating him? I think I might take you up on that bet.

      • Phoenixz
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        14 days ago

        50 bucks say they will, within the year, as he will run the country of a cliff. They are dumb but once they start feeling their wallets hurt, they’ll change their tune.

    • GHiLA
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      35 days ago

      They’ll tell them extremist rioting leftists are the cause of everything.

      “2016 2”: This time it’s Personal.

      They’ll use the same excuses and fallbacks they used then, and the uninformed Americans will eat it up all over again.

      It’s so easy, they don’t even have to change strategy.

  • @HootinNHollerin
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    296 days ago

    we have more wealth disparity than the guilded age as well

    Shit must change

    • @krashmo
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      106 days ago

      You have been shown the way

  • @enkille
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    246 days ago

    It would be so cool if they could be melted down and harvested for resources. A lot of good could be accomplished with $340bn.

    • FiveMacs
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      16 days ago

      I’d rather use plastic stars again then ever use the filth they would be able to produce

  • Chozo
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    236 days ago

    Imagine if they all fully liquidated their assets and pooled together their money into a stimulus fund and distributed it all to the public as the ultimate act of goodwill to the American people. I mean, could we dumb libcucks even argue with them anymore? That’d be such an indisputable victory that we’d have to admit that they’re right. Man, I really hope they don’t do that, that’d just own me so hard that I might have to convert to Christianity. Please don’t pass this idea along to them, I can’t imagine how embarrassed democrats would be if they did this oh gosh I hope I don’t jinx it.

    • @[email protected]
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      45 days ago

      Besides, they all got to where they are through hard work and perseverance, right? Surely they could just do it again

    • @Fedizen
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      36 days ago

      imagine if the ceo murdering guy got them too and all that money flooded into the markets.

  • @Sterile_Technique
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    166 days ago

    Unrelated, but does anyone know how much tissue a guillotine can cut through in one motion using it’s own momentum?

    I just realized 1700s France could have probably saved a lot of manual labor by arranging their oligarchs in a little stack and then dropping the blade.

    Anyway, $340bn? Daaaaang that’s crazy. …well, have a good’n folks!

  • @TingoTenga
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    156 days ago

    It’s a good thing then that wealth isn’t associated with sociopathy and lack compassion.

    /s